Wall-safe.



G. E. BLEGHSGHMIDT.

WALL SAFE.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 19. 1909.

Patented May 10, 1910.

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GHMIDT. SAFE. APPLICATION FILE-D NOV. 19, 1909.

WITNESSES:

CHARLES E. BLECHSCHMIDT, OF CONNERSVILLE, INDIANA.

WALL-SAFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1910.

Application filed November 19, 1909. Serial No. 528,886.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BLEoH- SCHMIDT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Connersville, in the county of Fayette and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in lVall-Safes, and of which invention the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in safes or receptacles intended for the safe keeping of money or other valuables, and has reference more especially to that class or type of safe which is capable of being made substantially an integral part of the wall or partition of the building wherein the safe is to be used.

The purpose of my invention is to provide such improved construction and arrangement of parts constituting a safe of this kind that it will be capable of being easily embodied in and made a part of the wall or other structure of which it is to be made a part.

To this end my invention consists essentially of a solid metal box or case having its edges or sides flanged, the door-ring having an integrally formed lug to receive connections for the safe door.

Advantages of my invention are that the door need not necessarily form a part of or be attached to the safe during the constructional work of installing the safe in its place in the wall. Moreover the wall material such as plastering or concrete may be built down substantially to the rim of the door thereby contributing to the retention of the safe rigidly in position, and at the same time minimizing the appearances on the wall indicative of the retention therein of a safe.

The objects of my invention are accomplished by the new construction, combination and arrangement of parts described in this specification, defined in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Corresponding parts are represented by similar characters of reference throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a front View, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of my improved safe complete. Fig. 3 is a front view of the safe, the door having been removed. Fig. 4 is a view similar to that shown in Fig. 3, the door being shown in open position. Fig. 5 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken on the line 55 Fig. &. Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 are enlarged detached views of the door, portions thereof being broken away, to show more plainly the improved hinge and there being a portion of the safe shown, in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a view of a portion of wall wherein my invention is installed.

At the front and rear of the body of my improved safe, which is of the usual steel structure, are the flanges l and 2 respectively; the back plate that is formed integral with the body of the safe, provides the flanges 3. The front wall of the safe is pro vided with the recess 4, and formed integral with the front wall is the door ring 5. This door ring is of suitable depth, as shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 5, and it has the annular flange 6 which forms the frontal face of the safe. The door 7 will close against the usual ledge 6 and its frontal face will be flush or in registration with the face of the flange 6. It will be understood that the door is provided with the usual combination lock mechanism operable by a dial and the lock bolts 8 of which mechanism will engage the suitable recesses 9 in the door opening. It is desirable that this door 7 may be disposed in place after the safe has been placed in position and all structural work in completing the wall about the safe has been finished. To accomplish this I provide the lug 10 which is formed integral with the frontal wall and ledge 6 of the safe. Transversely through this lug 10 extend the machined holes 11 in which are retained the shanks of the hinge bars of the door. A detail view of the hinge is shown in Fig. 5 and Fig. 6. Rigidly secured to the rear side of the frontal plate of the door, are the studs 12; in the bifurcated ends of the studs are pivotally retained the ends of the hinge bars 13 which have the nuts 14 on their threaded ends. By this combination and arrangement of parts the door is capable of being easily attached to the safe after the latter has been permanently placed. When the nuts 14 are screwed into tightened position the door will be sustained in accurate location, so that when swung about and pushed inwardly into the closed position, its frontal face will be flush with the face of the flange 6, and the hinge bars will occupy the dotted line position, as shown in Fig. 6.

The dial 15 provided for the usual purpose of operating the combination lock mechanism that is contained within the door, is of the well known external structure as shown in Fig.

and form. Such connection between this dial and the said lock mechanism is provided that the dial is easily removable from its connection with the said lock mechanism.

In the frontal face of the door is provided the pilot-pin 16. This pilot-pin, as plainly shown in Fig. 7, is partially embedded and has an angular frontal edge so that when the wall covering material such as paper or buckram is applied, the sharp frontal edge of the pilot-pin will be dis tinctly visible and the dial may be worked with relation thereto in the usual way.

From the foregoing specification, the utility of my invention will be apparent.

My improved safe while comparatively light in weight, has the flanges l and 2 and the back plate, the recess 41- and the door ring flange, all so constructed and arranged relatively to each other, that when the plastic material forming the wall, is built in around the safe body, it will become substantially an integral part of the wall. The door being provided with the detachable connection with the safe-body, it need not be placed in actual ojerative position until the wall structural work about the safe has been completed.

After the hinge bars have been inserted into position and the nuts 14 placed thereon, (3, my improved safe is complete; the frontal face will be exactly flush with the face of the doorring, so that a smooth surface is presented over which the wall covering material is applied. EX- cept for the end 17 of the central shaft 17 of the lock mechanism, and the circular line 18 there is no mark or interruption in the smooth surface of the wall, other than the frontal edge of the pilot pin as hereinbefore described.

The combination lock will be operated in the usual way by working the dial to the pilot-pin l6, and it may be entirely removed, as shown in Fig. 8.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A safe comprising a hollow metallic body having a flanged door-ring formed integral with its front side the width of the door-opening at its rear edge being less than the width thereof at its front edge, and the interior of the said door ring being provided with an integrally formed lug to receive connections for the safe door, the said front side and the rear side of the aforesaid body being provided with flanges, and there being a longitudinal recess or depression in the front side.

2. In a safe of the kind described, a hollow metallic body having a flanged doorring formed integral with its front side the interior surface of the said door-ring being rabbeted and provided with an integrally formed lug having holes transversely therethrough, a door having its peripheral surface of form to fit snugly the door-ring, hinged bars secured on the inner surface of the said door the main portions of said bars being slidingly disposed in the holes of said lug, and means secured on the inner ends of the said hinged bars to prevent same from leaving the holes in the lug.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE W. HoBsoN, J r., MINNIE BLECHSOHMIDT. 

